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What If Your Worst Mistake at 16 Meant Life in Prison? The Nicco Plowden Interview

What If Your Worst Mistake at 16 Meant Life in Prison? The Nicco Plowden Interview

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Stories From a Mentally Ill Inmate: Where Fantasy and Certainty Collide

Stories From a Mentally Ill Inmate: Where Fantasy and Certainty Collide

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He Wrote to a Woman Serving 40 Years in Prison...Then Married Her

He Wrote to a Woman Serving 40 Years in Prison...Then Married Her

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Pen, Paint, and a Lifelong Friendship: Anya Blakeley and Mike Tran

Pen, Paint, and a Lifelong Friendship: Anya Blakeley and Mike Tran

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From Survival to Second Chances: Anjel Ocegueda's Journey Toward a Better Future

From Survival to Second Chances: Anjel Ocegueda's Journey Toward a Better Future

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Miguel Cordero: Prison Pen Pal, Singer, and Artist

Miguel Cordero: Prison Pen Pal, Singer, and Artist

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Catfished Behind Bars - Could Cops Be Using the GettingOut App Pretending to be Underage?

Catfished Behind Bars - Could Cops Be Using the GettingOut App Pretending to be Underage?

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Serial Killer Pen Pal: DeWayne Lee Harris

Serial Killer Pen Pal: DeWayne Lee Harris

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Jason Kurtz's Fitness and Wisdom

Jason Kurtz's Fitness and Wisdom

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Jacobi Thornsberry: Conversation with an Oregon Inmate

Jacobi Thornsberry: Conversation with an Oregon Inmate

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Name Change in Prison: Savannah's Story

Name Change in Prison: Savannah's Story

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More Than an Inmate's Girlfriend: Interview with Prison Wife and Host, Jae Ely

More Than an Inmate's Girlfriend: Interview with Prison Wife and Host, Jae Ely

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Psychology of Prison Relationships, with Trauma Specialist Jennifer Garcia

Psychology of Prison Relationships, with Trauma Specialist Jennifer Garcia

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Prison Relationships: Alone Again

Prison Relationships: Alone Again

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Xandan Gulley: Female to Male Transgender Inmate Pen Pal

Xandan Gulley: Female to Male Transgender Inmate Pen Pal

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Richard Strong: Never Alone, but Always Lonely

Richard Strong: Never Alone, but Always Lonely

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Doing God's Work

Doing God's Work

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Marc Rosemond: How Music and Art Helped Transform the Life of a Convicted Murderer

Marc Rosemond: How Music and Art Helped Transform the Life of a Convicted Murderer

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Matt Reynolds: Animal Trainer, Professional Wrestler, and Prison Pen Pal

Matt Reynolds: Animal Trainer, Professional Wrestler, and Prison Pen Pal

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A Very Prison Thanksgiving: Inmates Share Holiday Traditions

A Very Prison Thanksgiving: Inmates Share Holiday Traditions

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Ryan Rice Shares His Story

Ryan Rice Shares His Story

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Prison Pen Pals: Still Human

Prison Pen Pals: Still Human

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Locked Up on Halloween: Hear Real Stories from Inmates

Locked Up on Halloween: Hear Real Stories from Inmates

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Is Marvin Dearing Innocent?

Is Marvin Dearing Innocent?

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David Bomber: Incarcerated Artist, Blogger, and Actor

David Bomber: Incarcerated Artist, Blogger, and Actor

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Jason Kurtz - Incarcerated Author

Jason Kurtz - Incarcerated Author

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Easter Nightmare: An Interview with Colby Brookman

Easter Nightmare: An Interview with Colby Brookman

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Prison Wife, Therapist, and Author: Interview with Annie Perry of JailHouse Books

Prison Wife, Therapist, and Author: Interview with Annie Perry of JailHouse Books

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Former EMF Gang Member Talks Faith, Hope, Redemption

Former EMF Gang Member Talks Faith, Hope, Redemption

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Write a Pen Pal Profile that Gets Results

Write a Pen Pal Profile that Gets Results

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Jimmy Tench Interview from Death Row

Jimmy Tench Interview from Death Row

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Pen Pal Love Across the Pond: Bianca and Armon

Pen Pal Love Across the Pond: Bianca and Armon

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Prison Pen Pal Podcast Trailer

Prison Pen Pal Podcast Trailer

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Prison Artist: An Interview with Alfson

Prison Artist: An Interview with Alfson

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Ghosted By My Prison Pen Pal

Ghosted By My Prison Pen Pal

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Microwave Manifesto: Food and Philosophy Behind Bars

Microwave Manifesto: Food and Philosophy Behind Bars

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Connection: The Real Reason People Seek Out Inmate Pen Pals

Connection: The Real Reason People Seek Out Inmate Pen Pals

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It Wasn't Me: Bad DNA? Framed By the CIA?

It Wasn't Me: Bad DNA? Framed By the CIA?

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The Holiday Episode: Happily Ever After!

The Holiday Episode: Happily Ever After!

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Marijuana Inmates: Amy in Arizona Wrote to a Dozen Prison Pen Pals

Marijuana Inmates: Amy in Arizona Wrote to a Dozen Prison Pen Pals

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Killer with a Conscience: The Will Leverett Interview

Killer with a Conscience: The Will Leverett Interview

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Inmate Service Companies: Hear Real Reviews from Inmates

Inmate Service Companies: Hear Real Reviews from Inmates

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Solitary Confinement: The Hole Truth

Solitary Confinement: The Hole Truth

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Brian Dripps: Convicted of Angie Dodge Murder After 25 Years

Brian Dripps: Convicted of Angie Dodge Murder After 25 Years

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About The Show

Many believe prison inmates to be completely undeserving of love or friendship.  PenPals.Buzz founder, Big Steve, disagrees.  Every Monday, from a studio in beautiful downtown Red Bluff, California, he discusses a different aspect of the prison pen pal experience.  Hear perspectives from inmates, their families, free-world pen pals, and even correctional officers and wardens.  This podcast is informative, entertaining, tragic, and eye-opening, all at the same time.  You’ll see a more human side to prisoners, and you’ll realize that not all prison pen pals are just after money on their commissary accounts or sexy pics.  Most, in fact, just want a friend on the outside.

Big Steve

A former radio personality in San Francisco, Big Steve has extensive first-hand experience with the prison system.  He even met his wife on a prison pen pal website.  During the few minutes a day when he’s not working, Steve enjoys chess, poker, carnitas nachos, reality TV shows, and working to give incarcerated men and women a sense of hope, thereby reducing the recidivism rate.  He believes men and women should be judged by who they are today, not by a mistake they made many years, or decades, ago. 

Email him at podcast@penpals.buzz.

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